And the first thing for me, to learn about this kind of meeting, about how the board meeting and representatives of CARE from all over the world coming together, this was most impressive. It gave me the change to understand the feeling of CARE employees from all over the world. This is good for the board, and I also learned.

Every year, we have a board meeting at the CI Secretariat and then in one other part of the world. But this time, we were able to learn from all spots, all over the world. Like a shopping center, we could choose from all things we were interested in and get to know those people. I want to hear everything.

CARE USA and the other CI organizations can be proud to support this conference. In terms of cost benefit, this conference was excellent.  

 Another example is partnerships - how can partnerships between the north and the south hold accountable our governments and authorities. This was quite interesting for me, since one of our missions at African Public Radio is to try to hold our authorities accountable and to make people understand that our governments have got to be accountable.

I think that now, because of CARE's international presence, local NGOs benefit from CARE's presence, in terms of capacity building, and even in terms of a type of protection and endorsement of credibility at the local level. It is very difficult for local NGOs to get funds from the West, unless it happens through an international NGO. You can have a great project and you can present it, but you must be credible and you've got to be with an international NGO. 

We can learn skills through CARE, because CARE regularly holds workshops on financial and program management. Local NGOs become aware of some structures and situations through international NGO's who have been working with grassroots organizations.

When I was following the presentation about "I Am Powerful", I noticed that CARE has changed many things. CARE has already changed many things. From my point of view, the way that CARE is working is already good, they way they adapt, etc.

When you focus your work on women, it is a marketing technique that can work for radio and local NGOs in Burundi. "Je suis forte." The fact that it focuses on the grassroots community - this is great.

Our house was located one mile up the dirt road; the road was so muddy we had to walk in the mud. My father was a history professor and a Maoist, so I had a little red book as a child. He believed that "physical labor frees the mind", so he had me do things like move a compost pile from one area of the yard to another, to prevent me from becoming too illectual.

My mother sewed all of my clothes. I was reading books on the holocaust at the age of 4. '70s people thought their kids would change the world - that they would make social activists out of their kids. And so my parents did. It's like if you parents are doctor. Roots aired on television when I was in the 4^th grade; it made me so upset, I didn't go to school for a week!

My daughter is two and I'd like for her to grow up in an international environment, to be a child of the world. But I'm not raising her the same way that I was raised!